Mexican border town fades as migrant flow ebbs

It wasn't so long ago that thousands of passers-by would spend a couple of days on a bus to swarm into this cow town in the heart of the Sonora Desert.

PART I

Illegal immigrants going home, and local labor market at risk

Malaquías Gaspar left his farm village in southern Mexico when the economy soured in the mid-1990s. He headed north illegally and found the proverbial better opportunity in South Florida, where he made a decent living by picking fruit and building homes.

IMMIGRATION

Past year saw record deportations

Immigration officials deported almost 350,000 foreign nationals in the past year in an effort to lower the number of illegal migrants in the U.S.

MILWAUKEE JOURNAL

Officials tracking down illegal migrants at Head Start

Immigration enforcement officials are now targeting migrant and seasonal Head Start centers in some states as part of efforts to track down illegal immigrants, the executive director of the National Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Association says.

More charges against driver in Arizone migrant crash

A Mexican man who had been accused of transporting illegal immigrants after a rollover crash killed nine people faces new charges that could bring the death penalty.